No verdict, yet

At 9:30 this morning, the Oconee General Sessions jury returns for a second try at reaching a verdict in South Carolina v. R-L Webb.  Two hours of deliberations late yesterday afternoon broke up when the jury, at the offer of Judge McIntosh, chose to go home for the night and return this morning.  In the first hour of their deliberations, there were signs that there would be no quick verdict on whether Webb is guilty of the murder of Steven Gregory Brock and burglarizing Brock’s home near Westminster.  They returned to the courtroom and posed three questions, including the time that Cole Stancil placed a 9-1-1 call and whether a blood test had been done on a Webb-owned shotgun.  The third question dealt with the jury’s request, which the judge granted, to clear the courtroom to allow the jury to re-hear the part of the jailhouse interview in which Webb said he shot Brock at close range inside the trailer home.